Dear IMO,

My father recently died.  He had prostate cancer.  Although my sisters, my mother and I were prepared for his death, we have some questions regarding the medical treatment he received.  Or should I say the treatment he did not receive.  We believe that his doctor was negligent in his duty to detect the cancer.  There were signs and symptoms that the doctor failed to detect or perhaps ignored.  For example, cancer specialists will biopsy eight sites for prostate cancer.  In fact we have spoken to some in the medical field who have performed as many as twelve to insure the best diagnosis for a patient.   Dad’s doctor performed just six well below the normal of eight prescribed by the medical profession.    

On Sunday August 21,All Saints Church in Lansing had their annual festival. The festival is traditionally held on the third Sunday in August.  This year's festival was chaired by Tony and Julie Eisenhut and Anne Drake and as always they did a wonderful job coordinating  the activities and ensuring a smooth operation.  At some point in the planning stages it always looks like it is going to be hard to pull off the festival.  Even though people don't always sign up people always step up to help.

Last week the old Beardsley Building was demolished, ending its long history as a Lansing landmark. The building had been condemned. All that was left standing was an old piano, an outhouse and a few piles of lumber and rubble on the lot across Route 34 from Linda's Diner. It had been empty for some time. "That thing was falling down when I moved here in '56," said North Lansing resident Grey Larison.

Did you know Lansing has a Town Constable? Scott Ferris is Lansing's only peace officer, having been a town constable here for about fifteen years. "This is technically part time, he says, "but I'm around a lot of the time. It's 24/7 from Memorial Day to Labor Day," he says of his lake enforcement duties. In the parks he maintains the security of the camping area, the pavilions, the marina, the ball fields, and Ludlowville park from April 1 to November 1. He is in the courts twice a week, keeping order for Judges Burin and Howell. "Even on weekends, I go somewhere every day," he smiles. He is the Civil Process Server for the Town, serving documents issued by the court for code violations. In addition to all this he is a part time Sergeant on the Groton Police force.

Mr. Ferris began as a Lansing Constable when he was a Sheriff's Deputy working for Tompkins County, continuing in the position after he retired in 2001. Originally five Sheriff's Deputies shared park enforcement duties. Eventually the other four retired or left the area.

Nearly everyone who has known her for very long refers to  Lansing resident Mary Searles as if her name were one word:  "Marysearles."  And she's a keeper of many lists.

This little known fact was uncovered as the result of  an innocent enough remark, "Gee, you must have a lot of lists!", but the words were no more than out of my mouth than the  Director of the Lansing Food Pantry rolled her eyes heavenward, leaned her head on the lunch counter  and sighed "Oh, yes!  We couldn't function without  our lists!".

Lansing Schools Interim Business Administrator Gary Alger says the school district office is "an extremely inefficient office at best." The district is looking into the feasibility of leasing an office until a new permanent office in the next capital improvement project.

A leased office would be a modular building that could be brought onto the campus temporarily, then removed when it is no longer needed. One option is to put it where the current district office is, but that would mean displacing the seven people who work there while demolition and replacement takes place.

As if needing new burners and a face lift on the old brick walls wasn't enough, the Middle School was flooded Saturday (8/20) evening when the water main broke inside the basement wall, filling the boiler and storage rooms with six feet of water. When that happened the power went out. That's the bad news.

The good news is that a Kimball, Inc. worker who was there to work on boiler pipe demolition was able to repair it by the next morning. By Tuesday the basement was drained and the power was turned back on.

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The Lansing School Board was presented with the numbers on the school meals program at the August 8 regular meeting. The program is losing money. Interim Business Administrator Gary Alger suggested a two pronged attack: raise the price of regular breakfast and lunch meals by 25 cents, milk by 10 cents and raise the prices a la carte items drastically.

The district receives 22 cents from the federal government and 6.5 cents from the state, for a total of $.285 for each meal sold. The problem is that many Middle and High School students have been buying their meals a la carte, which does not qualify for the reimbursement.

From Aug. 4 through Aug. 6, the Baden-Powell Council of the Boy Scouts of America ran their annual Resident Camp program at Camp Barton in Trumansburg, NY. Six boys and five adult leaders from Pack 48 attended this year's camp. Scouts from Apalachin, Dryden, Ithaca, Newfield and other regional towns were also present.

Cub Scouts take part in the evening Flag Ceremony

August 13 -- Despite threatening thunderstorms a crowd gathered at Freebrook Farm in Freeville for the 8th Annual Farm City Day, an educational event that gives the public a first hand look at how farms operate. The event is sponsored by the Tompkins County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and agriculture businesses and organizations.

Organizer Debbie Teeter at the Welcome booth -- Lin Davidson manning the Need for Seed booth